Evaluation 06- what have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing this product?

In the process of developing this product, I have learnt how to work the Camera, making sure that the framing was correct and that we hadn't caused the camera to shake. I learnt how to use the digital programmes such as Premier Pro and Photo shop to edit our opening sequence, we also learnt how to use the voice recorder when it came to recording Ash's voice over.

The camera and the rules that came with filming was something before preparing for this task I hadn't been aware of. The rules such as the shot reverse shot rules, that we incorporated into our own opening sequence was something I want to focus on specifically. We knew when we decided as a group to incorporate that rule in our opening sequence it was going to be important. It showed the emotions and the friendship between the two characters of Ash and Darcy and allowed us to see the fun they were having from both perspectives.

I learnt how to use premiere pro to edit our teen angst film, these are a small amount of the tools I used when it came to cutting down sections of the film and making it flow into each other nicely. The bins are used to store footage, audio, titles in so that it keeps it all neat and not hard to find at a later date. We often found within editing our teen angst film that we would reuse our title again, or need to reuse our footage again as we had cut it too short and it wasn't a smooth clean cut and we wouldn't have been able to find it especially later on in the editing process when a lot of titles and audio files were imported.



















This is my blogger page, where I update all my changes, choices and decisions of our teen angst opening sequence on. Here you can press the new post button on the top left corner of the page and it takes you to a new page to be potentially be published onto your blog.

These three tools, came essential to use within the process of writing my blog. These enabled me to be able to link YouTube videos, for example when I had to add my first draft onto my blog, using the Link tool enabled me to be able to. The icon with the picture made me able to upload pictures onto my blog posts, so that the posts were more creative and interesting to read and look at. Finally the movie clip icon, meant that I could upload videos onto my blog, this helped when I had to upload my preliminary task as I hadn't uploaded it onto YouTube but already had it as a video on the computer so this allowed me to upload it without the added hassle of having to upload it onto YouTube first.

Here you can see our editing workspace, As you can see I have circled one of the bins we had created called 'Audio' as I had mentioned it before, but without any present. This allowed us to put all the non-diegetic voice overs in, making our workspace tidy and neat. Then you can the tracks I have highlighted too, these allowed us to layer tracks of video and audio together, so that we could create titles and special effects within our opening sequence. the audio on track 10 I have highlighted so you what audio looks like on the time line. Finally in the middle right you can see a group of numbers, the soul purpose of this is to tell us how long our whole opening sequence was, as we were told to stick to a time limit of 2 minutes, so this allowed us to keep tabs on how long our opening sequence was so we didn't go over it

This is YouTube, this web page allowed us to upload our opening sequence, the fist draft and the final one, so then we could upload it onto our blogger page. It took a little while for it to upload but once done, it meant we could link it to our blogger pages, by using the 'Link' tool that I talked about previously, therefore it's now easy to to find and view.